FDP Federal Party Congress 1971

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 12.7 "  N , 7 ° 52 ′ 21.7"  E

title	22nd Ordinary Federal Party Congress
Serial number	22nd
place	Freiburg in Breisgau
state	Baden-Württemberg
Hall	City Hall
Beginning	October 25, 1971
Duration (in days)	3

Freiburg city hall

Voting cards from Werner Maihofer , Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Burkhard Hirsch and organizational letters for the party congress

Brochure: Flat Speech 1971

The Free Democratic Party held the federal party convention of the FDP in 1971 from October 25 to 27, 1971 in Freiburg . It was the 22nd regular federal party conference of the FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Brochure: Freiburg Theses

Course and resolutions

Quite similar to the first party congress in the southern Baden city three and a half years earlier, another personnel decision was linked to the party congress. For the first time the delegates installed the office of general secretary.

In addition, a new program was decided with the “ Freiburg Theses ”, which replaced the 1957 Berlin program . It only dealt with a few social and socio-political topics such as property management, co-determination , wealth creation and environmental protection (!). But it was all about the political discourses sparked by the student movement of the late 1960s. In particular, the demanding introduction written by Werner Maihofer was understood as a repositioning in the sense of a social and reform-oriented liberalism in the tradition of Friedrich Naumann . Karl-Hermann Flach , the new FDP general secretary, did not participate in the formulation of the Freiburg theses, but shortly before that he had shown very similar perspectives for the FDP with his pamphlet “Another chance for the liberals”.

On the one hand, the Freiburg party congress confirmed the formation of a coalition with the SPD in October 1969 in terms of content and program , but at the same time it was perceived as a departure to new liberal shores. This mood contributed a lot to the success of the November 1972 federal elections . However, in the following year in the wake of the “first oil crisis ”, the economic framework conditions, which were assessed as overly optimistic, changed massively. The FDP took this development into account in 1977 with a “market economy supplement” to the Freiburg theses in the form of the “ Kiel Theses ”, which were adopted at the FDP federal party conference in November 1977.

See also

• List of FDP federal party conferences
• Previous members of the federal executive committee since 1949
• Freiburg theses

Web links

Commons : FDP Federal Party Congress 1971  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Federal Party Congress  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• 25/27 October 2011 - Liberal deadline: 40 years ago FDP party congress in Freiburg. Archive of Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom , October 6, 2011.

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• Karl-Hermann Flach: The future of the liberals. Speech at the federal party conference of the Free Democratic Party from 25. – 27. October 1971 in Freiburg. o. O. 1971.
• Walter Scheel: Half time. FDP information. 22nd Ordinary Federal Party Congress Freiburg, 25. – 27. October 1971. Freiburg 1971.
• Rolf Zundel : FDP - corrective or challenge for the SPD? For the Freiburg Federal Party Congress. In: The New Society. 18: 880-882 (1971).
• View to Freiburg. For the party congress of a modern FDP. In: Social Democratic Press Service , year 1971, issue 204 (October 25, 1971), p. 7.

literature

• Jürgen Dittberner : The FDP. History, people, organization, perspectives. An introduction. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2nd edition, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17494-5 .
• Karl-Hermann Flach , Werner Maihofer and Walter Scheel : The Freiburg theses of the liberals . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1972, ISBN 3-499-11545-X .
• Peter Juling : Programmatic development of the FDP 1946 to 1969. Introduction and documents. Anton Hain Verlag, Meisenheim 1977, ISBN 3-445-01529-5 .
• Heino Kaack : On the history and program of the Free Democratic Party. Floor plan and materials. Anton Hain Verlag, Meisenheim 1976, ISBN 3-445-01380-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Information from: Archiv des Liberalismus ( www.freiheit.org/content/archiv-des-liberalismus ) (ADL), inventory of the FDP Federal Party Rallies, A1-1.
2. ^ FDP party congress: Until the left is united. In: Der Spiegel. Issue 45, November 1, 1971.
3. ↑ Karl-Hermann Flach: Another chance for the liberals or the future of freedom. A polemic. Frankfurt a. M. 1971; ders .: The future of the liberals. Speech at the federal party conference of the Free Democratic Party from 25. – 27. October 1971 in Freiburg. o. O. 1971.